Chapter 173 Too Hard to Serve (Two Chapters Combined into One)

After Zhou Chenglei and his colleagues moved all the iron frames to the dock, the large iron frame at the back had not been completely welded.

Zhou Chenglei borrowed power from the purchasing office to allow Zhou's father and others to continue welding, while he and Jiang Xia went to the municipal shipyard to transport the anchor first.

Jiang Xia went to the shipyard to sign the order for the two ships ordered yesterday.

It was already past eight o'clock when Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Xia returned from the city dock. The dock was bustling with people selling fish on fishing boats that went out to sea at night and returned in the morning. Many villagers came to buy fish.

It took some time for the ship to dock. After it finally did, four men moved the welded iron frame onto the ship.

After a whole morning of hard work, we finally arrived at the Pearl Island area at around ten o'clock.

Pearl Island was the name given by Jiang Xia. After all, her family rented it and it would belong to them for the next 20 years, so she gave it a name to make it easier to distinguish between the two rented sea areas.

One is called Pearl Island and the other is Coral Island. You can tell which sea area the islands are in just by hearing the names.

When Father Zhou heard Jiang Xia shouting like that, he smiled and said, "These two names are good. They sound rich. Who knows, we can also grow pearls in the future. There is a Pearl Father in the island country who grows pearls. Isn't he amazing? Let's try it too. This thing can grow pearls. Who knows, I can become the 'Pearl Lord' in the future."

What is father? Grandpa is the most powerful!

Wangcai’s Midas Touch can produce pearls from any pearl oyster she touches. The pearl oysters she raises should be more obedient, and the pearls they produce will definitely be big, round and shiny!

Therefore, he has a great chance of becoming the "Master of Pearls"!

Jiang Xia laughed when he heard it: "Dad, isn't it better to say 'Pearl Ancestor'?"

Father Zhou's eyes lit up: "Yes! The ancestor of pearls!"

Zu is more powerful than Ye!

Xiaowangcai still has a good idea.

This Pearl Ancestor is stable! Jiang Xia was amused by Zhou's father and looked at the islands in the distance.

There is an archipelago near Pearl Island. The sea water temperature here will not drop below 20 degrees Celsius and the salinity is high, which is conducive to the rapid growth of fish.

The most important thing is that this sea area is a natural shelter because of the existence of the archipelago.

Generally, the sea areas where abalone and pearl oysters can grow have relatively small waves and the flow rate of the sea water is also slow, because abalone and pearl oysters do not like places with big waves, they prefer quietness.

If the waves are not big, it is more suitable to put the cages on the seabed to raise fish.

Of course, typhoon days are excluded.

Even in a sheltered area during a typhoon, there are still some winds and waves, but they will be much less.

Zhou Chenglei found a place that was neither too far nor too close to the island and stopped the boat.

Zhou Chengxin also stopped the boat next to him.

While putting on his diving equipment, Zhou Chenglei said to Zhou Chengxin and Zhou Yongguo, "I'll go down and take a look first. You wait for me on the boat."

So Zhou Chenglei put on his diving equipment, jumped into the sea, and dived to the bottom of the sea to find a suitable place to put the net cage. He swam a long way and found the most suitable place to put the net cage. Then he swam out of the sea and waved to the people on the boat not far away, saying: "Drive the boat to my side!"

Zhou's father and Zhou Chengxin had been keeping an eye on the sea, and upon hearing this, they quickly drove the boat over.

When the boat came over, Zhou Chenglei climbed on board and, together with everyone else, lowered one of the anchors into the sea.

The anchor plus the anchor chain is very heavy, weighing hundreds of tons.

Therefore, it is best to find the right position in advance when throwing the anchor from the boat, otherwise it will sink into the seabed and hold tightly, making it difficult to move in the water.

Jiang Xia couldn't help, so she went fishing. However, she saw that the four of them had a hard time moving the anchor. Fortunately, there was a crane, but it took them almost half an hour to finally throw it down.

And the crane was making a harsh noise.

After one anchor is dropped, the boat must be driven to another location to drop the second anchor.

After that, the fishing net is put on the iron frame to make a net cage, and then thrown into the sea.

After throwing the cage into the sea, they have to dive to the bottom of the sea, secure the cage and drive piles to block it to prevent it from being washed away by the waves.

The work of fixing the fish cages is done underwater. Three young men take turns putting on diving suits and going down to the seabed to do the work.

It took six hours of work to finally get it basically fixed.

Zhou Chenglei felt that this was not enough, and he would need to buy some more iron pillars to reinforce the structure.

Father Zhou and Jiang Xia were fishing peacefully on the boat.

Father Zhou had never had such a great time fishing in his life! The two of them fished for about five hours and caught four large buckets of fish.

Who knows this kind of happiness? Going to sea with Wangcai is a lot of fun and a lot of money.

How come this girl wasn't his own? If she had been raised by his side since she was little, Zhou's father would have thought he would be the richest man in the world now.

No, if you couldn’t be the richest man in the previous periods, you might have been the leader of a country.

Zhou Chenglei saw that Jiang Xia and his father had worked together to catch a lot of good fish.

It’s just that there aren’t many worth raising, because big fish don’t need to be raised.

Zhou Chenglei picked out a giant grouper weighing more than two kilograms, a tiger grouper weighing about eight ounces, two groupers weighing half a kilogram and eight ounces, a small yellow croaker, and a yellow croaker weighing about three kilograms.

Giant groupers and yellow croakers can both grow to several hundred kilograms. Zhou Chenglei raises them in two cages. Tiger groupers and giant groupers, both of which are groupers, are also kept together.

Although most groupers like to live alone, prefer quietness to waves, and have a sense of territory, there are only so many houses and there is nothing that can be done about it.

The remaining fish were placed in the same cage.

Now the meshes of the two cages are still relatively large, and small fish and shrimps can swim in. There is no need to worry about them starving to death. I will put some more small fish and shrimps for them to eat tomorrow so that they can grow faster.

He will try raising the fish first, and once he is sure that these fish can survive, Zhou Chenglei will make a few more cages and put them on the seabed, and then drive a large boat to bring back a batch of fish fry.

After putting all the fish into the cages, it was already six o'clock and the sun was about to set, so the two boats hurried back.

When Zhou Chenglei and his friends returned to the dock, there were still many people there.

When everyone saw Zhou Chenglei and his boat coming back, they all came forward to see what fish they had caught today.

Even Zhou Bingqiang couldn't help but peek over.

In the end, I only saw a few barrels of fish, and I didn’t know whether they were sold at the city dock.

Yesterday, that boatload of fish was sold for four thousand yuan, which greatly stimulated him. Today, Zhou Bingqiang returned from fishing an hour later than usual.

Father Zhou smiled and said to the villagers, "We are not fishing today. Didn't we say that A Lei wants to try to raise fish? Let's go and raise fish in nets. Has anyone caught any expensive live fish? I'll buy them for a high price!"

As soon as Zhou's father finished speaking, someone immediately responded, "Yes! I caught a rat!"

"Do you want a mackerel?"

…

The villagers who caught live fish came towards Zhou's father carrying buckets!

Zhou Bingqiang looked at everyone rushing to carry buckets to sell fish to Zhou's father, pursed his lips and left.

Wenwan’s dreams can foresee the future. There is still a long time to go, and he may not lose to Zhou Yongfu!

***Zhou Chenglei sold the fish that Zhou's father and Jiang Xia caught for more than 60 yuan. After asking Jiang Xia for his opinion, he gave half of the money to Zhou Chengxin.

Zhou Chengxin refused: "This is the money from the fish Xiaoxia and Dad caught. What are you giving it to me for?"

Jiang Xia said with a smile: "Brother, take it! It's your turn to go out to sea today. This money should have been yours. If you hadn't been busy setting up the net cages and not trawling, you wouldn't have earned nothing."

Zhou Chenglei stuffed it into Zhou Chengxin's trouser pocket: "Take it! Each of us will have half."

Zhou Chenglei was afraid that Zhou Chengxin didn't bring home a penny, and Tian Caihua would be unhappy.

Zhou Chenglei had experienced before how miserable life was when a couple was not getting along.

But at that time, Jiang Xia was just asking for a divorce, not like Tian Caihua.

Zhou Chengxin said unhappily, "Didn't you say that we would raise fish together and each of us would share half of the profits? Now you have spent thousands of dollars renting the sea area, making the cages, buying anchors and chains, etc. I just put in some effort today, isn't that what I should do? Otherwise, I don't have to pay, and I still have to get paid for the work, so why should I get half? I don't want this money, I'll give it to Dad later."

Zhou Chenglei ignored him. He couldn't stop his elder brother from being filial to his parents.

So Zhou Chengxin returned to the old house and gave the money to Zhou's mother, saying it was the money from Zhou's father's fishing today.

Zhou's mother didn't know the situation either, so she took it.

Zhou Chengxin gave the money to his mother and went home.

As soon as Tian Caihua saw Zhou Chengxin coming back, she asked, "How much money did you make today when you went out to sea by yourself?"

Zhou Chengxin said calmly, "No, I didn't make any money from trawling today. A Lei plans to raise fish and asked me to partner with him. I went to put out the net cages today."

Didn't she think that Fourth Brother and Xiao Xia had profitable jobs but didn't want to partner with them? Now Fourth Brother is partnering with him in fish farming? She was judging others by her own standards every day!

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Tian Caihua almost went crazy after hearing this!

She had heard about this from the villagers. She originally thought that Zhou Chengxin was just helping Zhou Chenglei, but she didn't expect that they were actually in partnership? "Farming fish together? There are so many fish in the sea that you can just catch them, why raise them? Are fish so easy to raise? By the time the fish grow up, others won't know how many fish they have caught in the sea and how much money they have made! Are you okay with this? Raising fish? Anyway, I won't allow you to do that! Did you hear me!"

Zhou Chengxin's face immediately turned dark. "If you don't understand, don't say anything! We know our limits!"

She was unhappy that Jiang Xia didn't ask her to be a partner!

Now that A Lei is looking for him to be a partner, she is not happy! Too difficult to serve! Zhou Chengxin was too lazy to talk to her and went to find clothes to take a shower.

After working in the water and underwater for a whole day, I was so tired that I didn't want to argue with her! I didn't care whether she was happy or not. If she was happy, she was happy. If she was unhappy, she was unhappy. If I argued too much with her, nothing would be accomplished! Tian Caihua was so angry that she cried!

Today was their family's turn to go out to sea, but Zhou Chengxin didn't call her out to sea in the morning. When she went to the vegetable garden to water the vegetables, she heard that Zhou Chenglei had made several large iron frames to make fish cages, intending to raise fish on the seabed.

There are big ships that don't go out to sea, but raise fish on the seabed. Everyone says he is crazy and has become rich! He invested several thousand yuan to rent the sea area and planned to buy fish fry from villagers to raise fish.

If you spend so much time, money and energy raising fish, will you earn more when they grow big than by catching them in the sea with a net?

Everyone thought Zhou Chenglei was crazy because he had so much money that he had no idea where to spend it.

Tian Caihua felt that not only Zhou Chenglei was crazy, but Zhou Chengxin was also crazy! As the eldest brother, he seemed to have been drugged by Zhou Chenglei and obeyed him in everything.

He didn't even think about why Zhou Chenglei asked him to raise fish together.

Zhou Chenglei has a big ship that goes out to the open sea, and it stays out for ten days or half a month. She and Zhou Chengxin are in partnership, so doesn't that mean she wants Zhou Chengxin to help take care of the fish?

How can Zhou Chengxin go out to sea to fish if he has to take care of those fish? If he doesn't go out to sea to fish, how can his family make money?

Do you really think that you can make a fortune by putting a few fish in a cage? A typhoon blew away those cages!

It’s really a good thing that Zhou Chenglei didn’t go to their family. He worked so hard but earned nothing, so he went to their family.

Bullying this honest and kind couple!

Zhou Chenglei should just raise fish, don’t bring harm to their family!

***In the Zhou family’s old house, Jiang Xia was taking a shower in the shower room, while Zhou Chenglei was knocking around in the room.

After collecting the live fish, Zhou's father kept the fish in the live hold of the boat and in the water tank at the purchasing office, and then returned.

He heard the noise in his son's room and asked Zhou's mother curiously, "What is Lei doing in the room?"

Zhou's mother: "He said the chair legs were loose, so he nailed them."

Jiang Xia happened to come out at this moment. When he heard what they said, he blushed and hurried to help Zhou's mother move the food.

Father Zhou didn't think much about it, but when Mother Zhou and Jiang Xia had moved the food, Zhou Chenglei was still hammering away inside. He shouted, "Alei, it's time to eat! Haven't you nailed it yet?"

Zhou Chenglei was hiding under the bed and responded, "It's almost ready, you guys eat first."

Father Zhou couldn't help but mutter, "Does the chair have so many legs? It took so long to nail it down?"

Jiang Xia felt guilty, "It's the desk, the legs are loose too!"

After that, she shouted to the room: "Zhou Chenglei, come out to eat!"

Father Zhou was surprised: "Your desk is not new, how could its legs become loose so soon?"

When they got married, everything in the room was new.

Zhou's mother also asked, "Is the quality so bad? It's only been a short time since I bought it! Is the bed loose? Are the bed and desk a set?"

Jiang Xia: “…”

Then Zhou's father noticed that Jiang Xia's face, which was usually so white and glowing, turned red! Suddenly, Zhou's father had an idea.

Oh, the couple is loving and the money is rolling in! He said loudly to the people in the room: "Alei, hold on tight, don't worry, I'll leave you some food."

Zhou Chenglei almost nailed his fingers to the foot of the bed.

At night, Zhou Chenglei wanted to try whether the bed nails were stable enough.

Jiang Xia refused.

She felt embarrassed when she thought about eating and couldn't help but kick him.

He grabbed it.

Drive straight ahead.

Experiments have shown that the nails are quite stable.

It was worth it that he nailed a lot of nails on each bed leg.

***The next day we went out to sea to place the net cages again, and this time we went to the waters around the coral island.

Today, the four of us had experience and arrived back to the dock early, before six in the evening.

After they parked the boat and were heading home together, Zhou Li from the production team finally saw Jiang Xia coming back. She caught up with him and said to him with a smile, "Xiao Xia, there's a phone call for you this afternoon! The person on the other end said her name is Zhang Fuyan, and she asked you to call her back at six o'clock."

Jiang Xia glanced at her watch and saw that it was almost six o'clock. She thanked him and said to Zhou Chenglei, "You and Dad go back first! I'll call Xiaoyan back."

It should be the dried fish received.

Zhou Chenglei asked his father and the others to go back first, and he stayed with Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia remembered Zhang Fuyan's number and dialed it directly.

The call was quickly picked up, and Zhang Fuyan's cheerful voice came from the receiver: "Xia Xia, I can't find your brother!"

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